Description

... will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of ‘literature and science’ researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." —Richard Doyle

Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others’ bodies.

Author Bio

JUDITH M. HALBERSTAM is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California-San Diego. IRA LIVINGSTON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Reviews

““ . . . will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of ‘literature and science’ researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox.” —Richard Doyle
Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others’ bodies.”

Table of Contents

Part Two: Some GendersThe End of the World of White Men—Kathy AckerClass and Its Close Relations: Identities Among Women, Servants and Machines—Alexandra ChasinSoft Fictions and Intimate Documents: Can Feminism be Posthuman?—Paula RabinowitzReproducing the Posthuman Body: Ectogenic Fetus, Surrogate Mother, Pregnant Man—Susan Squier

Part Three: QueeringThe Seductive Power of Science in the Making of Deviant Subjectivity—Jennifer TerryPhantom and Reel Projections: Lesbians and the (Serial)Killing Machine—Camilla GriggersDeath of the Family or Keeping Human Beings Human—Roddey Reid

Part Four: Terminal BodiesReading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Alien and Rabid—Kelly HurleyTerminating Bodies: Toward A Cyborg History of Abortion—Carol Mason"Once They Were Men, Now They’re Landcrabs": Monstrous Becomings in Evolutionist Cinema—Eric White